大衛·範恩,1966年生於阿拉斯加阿留申群島,成長於凱奇坎島,畢業於斯坦福大學英文係,並獲得康奈爾大學創意寫作碩士。 他的第一部小說《一個自殺者的傳說》由於沒有文學經紀人願意嚮齣版社推薦而被擱置十二年。在此期間為瞭生活,他當瞭八年船長,還做過造船工作。最後他參加瞭格蕾絲·佩萊短篇小說奬並獲奬,該書纔於2007年由參與主辦該奬項的馬薩諸塞大學齣版社齣版。2010年,哈珀-柯林斯齣版社再版該書,獲得巨大成功,在國際上獲得十多個文學奬項,包括法國美第奇外國小說奬、西班牙第一文學最佳外國小說奬、加利福尼亞圖書奬、法國《快報》讀者奬等,並在11個國傢的40傢媒體入選“年度最佳圖書”名單。 在《一個自殺者的傳說》之後,大衛·範恩又相繼齣版《馴鹿島》、《塵土》和《公羊山》三部長篇小說。此外,他還齣版瞭迴憶錄《下沉一英裏》和反思美國校園槍擊案的紀實作品《人間末日》。大衛·範恩曾執教斯坦福大學、康奈爾大學、佛羅裏達州立大學和舊金山大學,目前是英國華威大學創意寫作教授。
In "Ichthyology," a young boy watches his father spiral from divorce to suicide. The story is told obliquely, often through the boy's observations of his tropical fish, yet also reveals his father's last desperate moves, including quitting dentistry for commercial fishing in the Bering Sea. "Rhoda" goes back to the beginning of the father's second marriage and the boy's fascination with his stepmother, who has one partially closed eye. This eye becomes a metaphor for the adult world the boy can't yet see into, including sexuality and despair, which feel like the key initiating elements of the father's eventual suicide. "A Legend of Good Men" tells the story of the boy's life with his mother after his father's death through the series of men she dates. In "Sukkwan Island," an extraordinary novella, the father invites the boy home-steading for a year on a remote island in the southeastern Alaskan wilderness. As the situation spins out of control, the son witnesses his father's despair and takes matters into his own hands. In "Ketchikan," the boy is now thirty years old, searching for the origin of ruin. He tracks down Gloria, the woman his father first cheated with, and is left with the sense of "a world held in place, as it turned out, by nothing at all." Set in Fairbanks, where the author's father actually killed himself, "The Higher Blue" provides an epilogue to the collection.
The story is very original and I can see the author is very talent. We can read it as a collection of short stories or a full novel. It presents different approaches to understand the tragedy of human being. The author develops the story in a very unique s...
評分 評分五个短篇和一个中篇的奇怪组合,也是真实的组合。这本书源于自杀者的不能确定的故事,自杀的不能确定的原因,以及作者对这些的一次次地思考。每一个故事都不是定论,于是读完全篇有一种真实和虚幻交织的感觉。很多地方是没有亲身经历的人写不出的东西,阿拉斯加的环境,捕鱼狩...
評分漫漫人生之涯,偶尔会有“不早不晚刚到遇到一个人说一声好”这种侥幸之言,太多的光阴却像是在荒漠中度过。日常所遇之人、事、物,常能激起心怀不平者的愤慨,习惯了在各种语言的咒骂言词中辗转,内心深沉的那块弹丸之地,却不时有杀人或者自杀的念头。也许事后浮起自卑、自责...
評分突如其來的變奏讓人淚流滿麵。被睏在進退兩難的內疚中,一遍又一遍地講述那些迴憶。
评分為什麼會有這麼傷心的故事
评分為什麼會有這麼傷心的故事
评分之前一直不敢卒讀Sukkwan Island,結果卻迎來意料外的驚人轉摺,仿佛數個平行世界並存,死亡帶來的波動,替死帶來的贖罪與畏懼,無法阻擋的命運,和讓人唏噓的幻想。數個版本的自殺演繹重構齣的不僅是心結,還有人類自身對遭受虛無感裹挾的最深恐懼。
评分昨晚讀到《蘇寬島》一段Roy和父親在山上的描述,兩個人之間縫隙和尷尬,承襲下來的抑鬱。有那麼一刻我突然相信我幾乎沒有從童年幸存下來。整個夜晚都在做連綿怪誕的夢。
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